Qalandar
I promise somewhat irregular posts on (in no particular order) Indian politics, cinema, and anything else that catches my fancy... Why "Qalandar"? So-called "liminal" religious traditions are a particular interest of mine, and "qalandar" is the sort of untranslatable, ambiguous, yet enormously evocative word that for me touches upon and articulates the experience of the sub-continent's "little" traditions in a particularly memorable way...not to mention the fact that in popular lingo the word has more than a merely religious/spiritual connotation, and can mean a bunch of other things, including a smart alec, wannabe, what-have-you...
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Yes, Raju he was very god in those scenes. He is pretty decent actor, no doubt about it. 
Nope..SRK always maintained he may not be suitable/adequate enough to be in HW films....he never said he dont care...quite a ...
most of these stars / actors do. I'm not just pointing at SRK, but he is part of the brigade ...
Looks good and with all that action and scintillating scenes..it could crack a huge opening in the Indian market. if ...
I remember the craze when Hrithik came on scene in 2000. I always thought him and Akshay Khanna as real ...
Saw it. Very good film. But really guys, Irrfan is the star here! 
Qalandar 12 August 2009
06:21:21 am
From other threads (I am deleting the originals):
Rudresh: “Nice design, need bit of color change i think”
Rudresh: “and one think ,keep the link to go back to home.
I mean one can go back by click the naachgaana header but still it will be better if there is separate link”
Qalandar: “I agree that the blue motif doesn’t go that well with the yellow/black styling. Other than that I like it, especially the “speech bubble” effect that reminds one of gchat function on iPhone…”
Rocky 12 August 2009
07:47:58 am
Wow, cool, seems very User Friendly !!!
Akshay 12 August 2009
08:49:12 am
I dont like the design of the new NG platform. It seems to be not coherent. The commments seem quite scattered, dark black lines in between ever comment is again not a good idea. We are wasting a lot of space because of the size of the images.
I dont like this design
rohitkarnbatra 12 August 2009
09:16:06 am
the recent commment box will be reformatted. good suggestions akshay!
rks 12 August 2009
09:36:06 am
Within a post also you can see “continue”..and when clicked does nothing but refereshing the page.
neelu 12 August 2009
09:44:01 am
I liek the new format – takes a bit of getting used to, and is a little less “clean” looking than the old, but slowly we are getting more black back and that is like the old NG look.
neelu 12 August 2009
09:46:22 am
So many iterations of NG and still no edit function for comments……
rudresh 12 August 2009
09:46:30 am
leave aside other things ,i like big avatar pic
rks 12 August 2009
09:49:27 am
“Comments to date” is probably wrong
rudresh 12 August 2009
09:50:10 am
agreed neelu, edit button is must for comments
rks 12 August 2009
09:51:33 am
“Views is not working.
OutKast 12 August 2009
10:09:34 am
Reduce the size of ‘gravatar’ image in the comments to the minimum. I do not like the new look of the ‘comments’ on the thread.
OutKast 12 August 2009
10:11:16 am
Please fix the views… It helps to know the number of views in determining what is liked or not on NG. I was hoping that it would be fixed this time.
OutKast 12 August 2009
10:13:33 am
I preferred old layout, where SB was at the bottom…
Don’t like the new layout with SB after the recent comments.
rks 12 August 2009
10:24:28 am
All Stars is missing.
OutKast 12 August 2009
10:33:23 am
Members login IS NOT working… It is opening up NG enrollment form. So i guess no new posts can be created until that it fixed :clap:
neelu 12 August 2009
10:35:00 am
Chat se dwellers should be kept in their place – at the very bottom of the food chain!!!
Akshay 12 August 2009
10:47:57 am
Rohit thanks for your response. Thats what I like about an active community, they really act as a very strong QA team
Couple of more thoughts from my side (starting from top of the page)
1. Below the NG logo there is a big gray box, dont see the reason for that. Is that missing the Top Navigation ?
2. The author of this post is Qalandar and the name comes below the Gravatar. My suggestions here : Keep the size of the Top gravatar to around 80% of the current size and then the name Qalandar should come to the right of the image. The font size for Qalandar (Author name) should be quite small (in my opinion this should be smaller than the title of the post)
3. No need for Comments to Date, there can be a link See all Posts to the right of the name only. Ensure that all this is aligned so that this comes in the same frame as the Gravatar of the author
4. The little write-up about the author should not come, in my opinion, with the post everytime. Instead the name of the author can be hyperlinked which opens a new page with the author details and all the posts of the author. Ideally I’d like to see the actual post without too much scrolling, right now to see any post i have to scroll down as the top part is usually occupied with unimportant information
(Feedback to be continued…)
neelu 12 August 2009
10:55:20 am
I and 2 are fixed in my view of the front page, but yes name could be in smaller font.. I like the ABOUT the author bit…
Akshay 12 August 2009
11:01:10 am
5. See this blog post http://gigaom.com/2009/08/11/n.....o-symbian/ and you’ll notice that how clean it is. It shows Title of the Blog at the top (in large fonts) followed by author, Date Posted and comments. I think we should just have that below the top navigation and cut the other irrelevant info
6. Again in the comments the name of the person, date and time should come on the same line rather than taking 2 lines, the gravatar should be very small and please get rid of the page-flip graphic with every comment. Its meaningless.
7. The gravatar of person posting the comment should be around 25% of the current size
8. Option of Reply-to-Comments would be a good addition too
9. I dont agree that there should be an option to edit Comments. Option to Edit Post should be there and the authors should mention that with an Update in their post if they discovered something after series of comments started but comments should not be allowed to be edited. It might make a conversation around a particular comment meaningless.
Right Panel Top
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Display Join NG now prominently as a nice button. Let it attract more attention (ofcourse if you want to attract more members)
The RSS feeds should be there on the right also so that we can subscribe to feeds for posts that we want to and would make the experience more engaging.
Categories should come one below the other
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I think I’m done with my feedback
) There is a lot more, but this is good for a start 
Akshay 12 August 2009
11:09:48 am
Ok Rohit I saw Neelu’s comment and then I realised maybe I was looking at something incorrect. She is right and when I looked at NG on Internet Explorer the site looks very good.
I actually use Google Chrome for browsing and on Chrome it looks terrible. Please fix
Akshay 12 August 2009
11:12:51 am
This is how the page looks on Google Chrome http://www.box.net/shared/rj70iemvvk
rks 12 August 2009
11:13:53 am
Login
OutKast 12 August 2009
11:14:42 am
Akshay – Clear your browser cache and stored data.. It should work fine after that. It works on Chrome for me.
rudresh 12 August 2009
11:20:15 am
it work much better in chrome than IE.6 for me
Akshay 12 August 2009
11:22:30 am
OutKast – Thanks this works for me now. In this case please ignore points 1, 6 and 7. Others are still valid
OutKast 12 August 2009
11:27:48 am
On the NG front page if the summary of the post includes a link, you cannot click on the Hyperlink (and open the link).. Has it been disabled deliberately ? or is it something which will be fixed ? Would like to click on the link with out opening up the post.
@ Akshay – You are Welcome !
Akshay 12 August 2009
11:31:18 am
About comments in my opinion we are wasting a lot of space. See here
http://www.box.net/shared/12aepol5o7
Instead we can have something like this
http://www.box.net/shared/n3dx2ys5m4
(please ignore the quality as I quickly put that using Paint)
neelu 12 August 2009
12:13:06 pm
Akshay – we can save space by making shorter comments too
Doga 12 August 2009
01:10:25 pm
Rohit,Q whatever you do is fine, but dont remove the number of comments thing, i usually go the threads which have more comments, as there are more chances of people arguing,lol.
But yeah seriously consider it.
Akshay 12 August 2009
08:14:40 pm
Point Taken Neelu, Sorry :p
neelu 12 August 2009
09:09:37 pm
Arre Akshay ji – joke thaa! Point is that saving space should hardly be an issue, but maybe we want to save our wrists by having to do less scrolling.
rks 13 August 2009
01:18:36 am